[lldb-dev] Linux ELF header e_ident[EI_OSABI] value

[Ted Woodward via lldb-dev]

That works fine for host debug, but not so much for embedded. On Hexagon, we
support 2 OS cases - standalone (which means no OS, or an OS that lldb
doesn't know anything about) and Linux. Both our standalone simulator and
our Linux generate core dumps using ELFOSABI_NONE. We run lldb on both x86
Linux and Windows, and our core dumps need to work on both.

 

Doesn't lldb get the correct OS from the target when you load them together?

 

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From: Howard Hellyer [mailto:HHELLYER at uk.ibm.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 8:39 AM
To: Todd Fiala <todd.fiala at gmail.com>
Cc: LLDB <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org>; Ted Woodward
<ted.woodward at codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [lldb-dev] Linux ELF header e_ident[EI_OSABI] value

 

Todd Fiala <todd.fiala at gmail.com <mailto:todd.fiala at gmail.com> > wrote on
25/08/2016 20:42:31:

> FWIW, I've taken a few whacks at getting Linux detected better over 
> the last few years, and haven't yet found a reliable way to detect 
> it from quite a few samples of cores from a number of different 
> systems.  We can spend more time looking into it, but that stone has
> been turned over several times. 

I spent quite a lot of time looking at the output of readelf too. I was kind
of hoping Linux was the only platform not using it's OSABI value, which
would have worked. 

The only other thing I thought of suggesting was having the ELFOSABI_NONE
case ifdef'd so that lldb defaults to the platform that it was built for -
on the assumption that you are probably opening a core from the machine you
are on. (So on Linux ELFOSABI_NONE would mean Linux, on FreeBSD it would
mean FreeBSD.) That would have meant lldb behaved differently depending on
where it was compiled which seems wrong and would introduce awkward to debug
behaviour so I ended up talking myself out of it. 


Howard Hellyer
IBM Runtime Technologies, IBM Systems 

	





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